Hong Kong’s top 2 parties clash over ex-Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang’s views on proposed national security legislation
- War of words breaks out between Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong and Federation of Trade Unions lawmakers
- DAB lawmaker Steven Ho says attack on Tsang is ‘absolutely unacceptable’
The two sides clashed after Joephy Chan Wing-yan, a lawmaker from the Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), singled out Tsang’s “puzzling” comments on the sedition offence in a YouTube video and cast doubt on his choice of writing an opinion piece for an “opposition-leaning” newspaper.
“Some people have regularly used [Article 23] to gain traffic, and even attacked scholars and politicians expressing legitimate views over Article 23,” DAB lawmaker Steven Ho Chun-yin told reporters at Legco.
“I found this absolutely unacceptable.”
Ho, who did not identify Chan by name, said Tsang’s discussion on “distinguishing the real concerns of the people from hostile attacks by opposition forces” in the op-ed article showed the veteran politician had made his constructive position clear.
